0n (20 Oct 06) BOB KLAHN wrote to CINDY HAGLUND...

 BK>  BM>> There was a recent article in the Washington Post to the
 BK>  BM>> effect that groceries in poor neighborhoods tend not to
 BK>  BM>> have fresh veggies, as it's expensive to keep them and
 BK>  BM>> other perishables in good condition.  Groceries in poor
 BK>  BM>> neighborhoods tend to cost more, so it comes down to diet.

 BK>  BK>>  Something I've been saying for years.

 CH>  Can't let the poor get healthy you know. They might get
 CH>  IDEAS! Besides junkfood tastes better. It's supposed to.

 BK>  You and I are thinking about different things. I am talking
 BK>  about cheap food, not junk food. Junk food is candy and
 BK>  pastries, which are not all that cheap.

 No. We are on the same track Bob, with a little side car
perhaps. A twinge if you will. Semantics IOW. To me cheap food IS junk
food, but I agree when it comes to cost the junk can be expensive.

Yeah. Candy ain't so cheap unless of course you by the fake
(ie: wax infused artificially flavored "chocolate" candies.)

By cheap food I surmise you mean what amounts to low grade starch and
fat laden "foods". Yeah.. in store bakeries often sell very cheap
bakery items... very poor quality.

Processed foods are bad and considered junk but they're what's driving
up the cost of the good foods. And yeah , they ain't cheap unless of
course they're on sale (rhymes with 'stale' (yeah, preservatives
give out eventually.

May we also include junk for the mind? Some kinds of junk for the mind
isn't cheap but it's still junk.... Take commercial TV for example.

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 BK>  And getting the poor healthy has always been a national policy,
 BK>  until recently. After all, somebody has to serve in the military
 BK>  and do the hard work. Now days the drive to go cheap is even
 BK>  into that.


 Yeah... that's basically why war mongering types oppose a woman's
right to dictate her own body in terms of birthing pawns.

It is sad isn't it? Motivation comes hand in hand with self esteem.
Unemployment CAN but not always: zap self-esteem. IF people have no
self esteem for one reason or another (mainly because they don't want
to be unemployed)- well they kinda shoot themselves in the foot don't
they? Because you need besides skills, self esteem to get and keep
a job.

You know what the poor do though that does themselves the greatest
disservice? I think you know.

Cindy

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